[mention]u9793[/mention] I started reading "The myth of the rational voter" by your boy Bryan Caplan in which he apparently makes the argument that democracy sucks and we should all pray to the free market. After about 20 pages, far from being convinced, I instead came to the conclusion th...

Had a dream where I was on a forum that was alive and smart people were making good points.

Not kidding

People like it

I saw them yesterday at the grocery store where's my money

Dolan wrote: ↑

28 Feb 2024, 01:27

Goodspeed wrote: ↑

27 Feb 2024, 22:27

And what good is that mythical status doing him

He comes pre-installed in the mind OS of a few billions

Which is not useful at all to a dead guy

And what good is that mythical status doing him

Something can be honorable and still stupid. Suicide to improve things is stupid simply because you're not going to see any of the improvements, even if it is the best way to improve things, which is highly debatable in most instances. Sidenote: Your tone has been very hostile to everyone who dares ...

Glorifying suicide is bad. Don't kill self is literally life 101, really basic stuff

It is suicide lol. Which is dumb for any reason, but "to send a message" is one of the dumber reasons

harcha wrote: ↑

30 Nov 2023, 07:02

As a member of Société "uhm actually" I have to point out that there are inherent flaws in your methodology.

It's perfect, wdym

tabben wrote: ↑

18 Feb 2024, 12:56

Can you think of legitimate reasons someone might want to pause?

https://new.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1asi4ue/trump_ordered_to_pay_over_350_million_and_barred/ There's a gofundme to help the poor guy out https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-trump-raise-the-settlement What a timeline, where poor people spend their last pennies to help a billionaire fraudster wi...

oh yes, certainly i am excusing it, as former ambassador george kennon , former secretary of defense william perry , and former ambassador william burns also make excuses for it So you think that in denying the existence of the Ukrainians as a population group different from Russians, invading thei...

Are you married to the "real-time" part of RTS? :chinese: Company of heroes is indeed very similar to dawn of war, it's pretty much the same game with different units. You could try beyond all reason. It's not very competitive and 1v1s are not interesting, but the teamgames are nice and th...

Terrorist*

iNcog wrote: ↑

12 Feb 2024, 02:14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

this is pretty insane. and undemocratic

Goes for most things republicans do these days

https://huggingface.co/papers/2402.04494 The point of this paper, which is clear from the abstract and stunningly missed by almost all the comments (guys, no one has intrinsically cared about superhuman chess performance since roughly 2005), is that imitation learning can scale even in domains where...

it does beggar the question. at what point are russia's interests so misaligned with the west's that they needed to start the war? you could make an argument about ideology when it was USSR v West/USA. but these days? ask the question the other way around. why must nato continually encroach on russ...

If we consider "trying to take over the government" a necessary part of the definition of insurrection then no it's not an insurrection. If we don't, then it is. Of course, Jan 6 was an insurrection either way.

Is this where your aggressive neutrality is going to stand in the way of objectivity again? Regardless of people's views, there is only one legitimate winner of a presidential election. If the loser organizes an insurrection to illegally take the presidency, that may be considered legitimate by some...

1) If the insurrectionist is popular enough to win the presidential election, it's unrealistic that congresspeople who answer to the same voters would then immediately remove him. Not only that but it doesn't make sense to call something an insurrection if there's a political majority supporting it...

Imagine how far gone you have to be as a political party to ally with the enemy lol

Twitter isn't real life, especially in the X era. I expect the vast majority of Americans haven't seen it

Listening to oral arguments, from early on it's clear that the justices' main focus is on whether or not states have the power to enforce amendment 14 section 3. And it sounds like the majority opinion will be that they don't, which would overturn CO's decision. From hearing the justices' questions ...

For what it's worth: I'm cautious of having a strong opinion or stance on the Gaza strip situation. What's clear to me is that extremist groups are utilizing civilian people as bargaining chips in a tense geopolitical situation. To attempt to fully understand the geopolitical situation is a little ...